New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-20
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GOVERNMENT IN SURPRISING IRELAND.
rBY CABLE TRrBUSE.l
roprrfc,'. 1887: Bv The Ne,c.Y York Tribune
Joypo~ Dec. 19.-The effect produced by the
.velation as to the design Of the Government to
cock the help OF Rome to reprcss Ireland proves
sbat the revelation not made moment too
,oon The design afoot, as / announced, and
the Unionsts were in great elation over the sup
posed prospects Of its success. or the many
striking proofs OF this which the last few days
have afforded perhaps the most remarkable is
the article in Yesterdays "Observer" The
Observer" is Lord Hartington's organ Yesterday
with desperate franlxness it advocated the pay
ment of the priests by the Government in order
that they might be under the control of the Castle
and not, now depending the people for their
support. :" The head Of the Catholic Church." it
says could afford it material assistance in check
ing the mischievous designs of the Parnellites.
We ground for the conclusion that the
Catholic Church in Ireland body is alienated
from British rule beyond recall. The bulk of the
priests" it goes on to say, d" are sitting on the
fence and it is in the power of British states
Aanshp to say which side OF it
they shall descend. The way to make them allies
f the executive" it contends, is to appeal TO
their temporal we'll as their spiritual interests
must be made, but this is not enough. Concur
rent endowment being out of the question since
the discstablishment of the Protestant Church,
the Irish priesthood must be brought by some
other means into direct stipendiary connection
with the state They must be freed from de-
pcndcnce their doclss and given a permanent
material interest in maintaining good relations
with the executive
Such an article this proves that the Govern
ment must be driven idiotic by desperation. As
Oh answer to it Mr.. DillOns speech at the election
contest now going at Winchester may be
quoted Using the language of OConnel as an
Irish Roman Catholic, he said that although they
reverenced His Holiness the Pope in Rome as the
head Of their religion, they would no more take
political guidance from the Pope of Rome than
from the Sultan of Turkey. One result OF the
revelations recently made in London was that no
JJnionist or Tory for the future would talk before
an English meeting of Home Rule being Rome
rule in Ireland He felt bound to say so much
on this matter because it striking and
startling revelation. Could any Englishman con-
eeive a greater humiliation for the Government
of this country than to go on begging mission
20 His Holiness in Rome to ask what would GER
tainly be rcfused-for the Pope was a good deal
TOO sensible man-to ask for his assistance 10
help Her Majesty to govern her subjects IN Ire
land?
An indirect but no less significant answer to
the suggestions of the Unionist was given ycster-
day by Bishop Nulty in n letter to Nauonal
League meeting held in his diocese Your meet
ing he said, will no doubt Indignantly re-
pudiate and denounce with the severity 1t de-
serves the tyrannical regime under which our
country is now forced to live-the infamous Co
ercon Act by which our liberties have been practl-
calv annihilated and the cruelty, the brutallty'
the revolving meanness with which that act is
now administered especially in the jail of Tula-
more in this diocese. A desperate and deadly
struggle for superiority is going on there be-
tween the tyranny, the nsolent brutality ana
meanness of Mr. Balfour. on the one hand, ana
the cbivalrous courage, the patience ana the III
aomitablc fortitude of Mr. William O'Brien on the
other, He adds that the treatment OF Mr
O'Brien evokes from the Irish heart a LOUD ana
fierce cry if not for retaliation, at least Tor JUS
tice The whole tone Of the letter says empha'lc-
allv that he is not one of the bishops on whom
Mr. Balfour can rely.
The Bishop of Limerick denies in " The Munster
News" that he is one Of these bishops cither i"e
game which the Government was plottlhe mas cei
tainly been spoiled by the revelations Inv
Roman correspondent Of " The Standard NO"
teleeraphs on high authority that al'housn O"
Vatican NAV consent to receive seml-oIicid'
ENGLISH envoy at Rome it will send no nuhclo 10
the Court of ST. James. The Government nav
all along been counting without their hoso' Inv
Vatican whose policy it is to be gulueu "S 0 INV
oninion of the local authority and which even II
H. did lend an ear to the proposal OF the "o,'i"
ment would take no action that heC 'ne ui'"p
proval Of the body Of the Irish bishops
Il. 2. Gill, Nj. +.